Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Sweater WIP and stitch markers!

The purple fair-isle sweater I've got commissioned is slowly growing. If you got a good amount of stitches, then it's still slow work no matter how big the needles are. Right now I'm at the boring mindless part where it's just round and round and round without any pattern, so I need something really entertaining to watch to keep it going at a normal pace...

The fair-isle at the bottom is so cute! It's these heart shaped thingies and at a distance, they look even better. These will be repeated around the wrists of the sleeves too. Also, the colour is deeper purple IRL, the daylight and my camera did something weird here...

And today some of my stitch markers arrived! I'm addicted to using these safety pin-ish markers in my knitwork. They're easy to remove and they're light which makes them easy to work with. But they tend to dissapear too easily! Which is annoying! Lately I've had a hard time finding ones in the colours I need, so I ultimately went on eBay to order a butt load of them. They're super cheap as well, so loosing a couple here and there doesn't matter too much. The pack of 300 that I've ordered arrived today and boy oh boy, they came in the nick of time! I had to organize my little craft item box that I keep next to me so I had room for them, and I could hardly find any of my old markers in there! Where have they all gone? I know I had just about 100 or so, but there was hardly 20 in the box...Welp, now there's 300+!

Mainly just 3 colours in there though, but that should be enough. Maybe I should look into getting some white ones...

Yarn storage - 2014

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About me!

Hello there and welcome to my little spin-off blog!My name is Lise, but you can call me Lizzy (or Liz). I am 25 years old and lives in Norway with my boyfriend and my little kitty cat, Pepsi.I am a licensed and graduated goldsmith, but getting a job is really hard so for now, I'm currently inbetween things...which sucks.My greatest hobby is game collecting...followed closely by knitting, henche why I started this blog! My mother taught me to knit when I was about 4-5 years old and I've been knitting on and off since then, until 4 years ago when I started to knit for realz! My favorite technique is by far fair-isle on socks and sweaters, but I love challenges in other directions as well.This blog is mainly to get myself back into blogging and get knitting away from my other blog (NintendoLizzy).You can find me on deviantART at KnitLizzy or LARvonCL.I hope you'll enjoy my projects and if you need to ask something, or want to commission something, send me an email at knitlizzy(at)gmail(dot)com

"Never going to finish these in time anyway... No need to stress about it" *kicks back with a can of beer and some Mario*